The Harvard women's tennis team, two weeks after tying Tufts in the Greater Boston Championships and one week after defeating them for the Massachusetts State title, fell to a newly inspired Jumbo team yesterday at Soldiers Field, 5-4.

Laura Weissman's defeat of number two Crimson singles player, sophomore Martha Roberts, 6-0, 3-6, 6-2, made possible what Jumbo coach Richard Shapiro called "probably the biggest win ever for womens' tennis at Tufts."

No Luck

After a disastrous first set, Roberts turned to her characteristically aggressive style to take the second set, 6-3. She fell behind 4-1, early in the third, though; and several spectacular shots from freshman Jumbo Weissman, foiled her late-set charge.

In other matches the Crimson's number four player, Abby Meiselman, dispatched Pam Esserian, 6-4, 7-5; and the third doubles team of Lisa Graco and Nanette Connelly downed Tuft' Rachel Baratz and Paula Falsion, 6-2, 6-1. Harvard's number five and six, Kris Mertz and Deirdre Wilde, lost their matches to Wendy Shahon and Dale Rampell, respectively.

Harvard's women in white go back into action Saturday in the New England Intercollegiate Championships at Amherst.